2026

Equitable Participation of Older People in a Fragmented Home Care System: An Ethnographic Enquiry in Switzerland

Poster by Nora Peduzzi, Katja Jungo, Séverione Soiron, Alexandra Staehli, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund, Samuel Stenz, Sarah Campbell, Franziska Zúñiga and Sandra Staudacher, 23rd World Congress of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG2026), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2026

Participation and Sociality in Assisted Living: Insights from Ethnographic Research with Older Adults

Presentation by Katja Jungo, Nora Peduzzi, Séverione Soiron, Alexandra Staehli, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund, Paula Carder, Franziska Zúñiga and Sandra Staudacher, 23rd World Congress of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG2026), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2026

Participatory Research with Older Adults: Twisting the Reflexive Rubik’s Cube

Presentation by Sandra Staudacher, Nora Peduzzi, Katja Jungo, Thibauld Moulaert, Anna Urbaniak, Carlo Fabian and Barbara Groot-Sluijsmans, 23rd World Congress of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG2026), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2026

Limits and Flourishing of Participation of Older People Living in Nursing Homes – An Ethnographic  Exploration and Analysis

Presentation by Séverine Soiron, Katja Jungo, Nora Peduzzi, Alexandra Staehli, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund, Eva Soom Ammann, Franziska Zúñiga and Sandra Staudacher, 23rd World Congress of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG2026), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2026

Approaching Participation of Older People through Transdisciplinary and Multilayered Ethnography in Long-Term Care

Presentation by Sandra Staudacher, Nora Peduzzi and Katja Jungo, PAAR-Net (COST Action CA22167 – Participatory Approaches with Older Adults) International Knowledge Exchange Event on Participatory Approaches With Older Adults in Health, Care, and Support, Cork, Ireland, June 2026

Participation in Swiss Assisted Living: Challenging the Imagination of an Intermediate Structure Through Ethnographic Research with Older Adults

Presentation by Katja Jungo, AAGE Biennial Conference AGING: The Where and When, Amherst, USA, May 2026

Equitable Participation of older people living with Long-term Home-based Care in Switzerland

Presentation by Nora Peduzzi, AAGE Biennial Conference AGING: The Where and When, Amherst, USA, May 2026

World Café. Discussing Changes in Practice

World Café moderation at the Symposium “The Ethics of Health Research Between Biomedicine and Anthropology”, organized by Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS) and the Ethical and Deontological Think Tank (EDTT), Berne, Switzerland, March 2026

Balancing Ethical Participation and Legal Grey Areas in the Context of Long-Term Care

Presentation by Séverine Soiron, Katja Jungo, Nora Peduzzi, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund and Sandra Staudacher, at the Symposium of the Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS) “The Ethics of Health Research Participation, Observation, and Power in Practice”, Berne, Switzerland, March 2026

Participatory Approaches with Older Adults in Interdisciplinary Research

Research visit of Thibauld Mouleart with Lunch Talk and Workshops with contributions by Thibauld Moulaert, Nora Peduzzi, Katja Jungo, Séverine Soiron, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund, Barbara Groot and Christian Reutlinger, Basel, Switzerland, March 2026

Partizipation in der Langzeitpflege. Eine ethnographische Untersuchung in der stationären Pflege (EPICENTRE), in der häuslichen Pflege und im betreuten Wohnen (PARTICIPATIO) in den Kantonen Basel-Stadt und Basel-Landschaft

Poster by Sandra Staudacher, Katja Jungo, Nora Peduzzi, Séverine Soiron, Alexandra Staehli, Norina Reiffer, Mona Brandão, Flurina Fellmann, Mirjam Karlin, Laura Maurer, Samuel Stenz, Miriam Grab, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund and Franziska Zúñiga at the final conference for Prof. Dr. Carlo Knöpfel “Die Zukunft des Sozialen in der Polykrise – Herausforderungen für Sozialpolitik und Soziale Arbeit”, Olten, Switzerland, February 2026

The Fragile Culture of Participation in Residential Long-Term Care

Presentation by Séverine Soiron, Katja Jungo, Nora Peduzzi, Alexandra Staehli, Norina Reiffer, Samuel Stenz, Anja Orschulko, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund, Eva Soom-Ammann, Franziska Zúñiga and Sandra Staudacher, Annual Meeting 2026 of the Swiss Anthropological Association (SEG/SSE), Fribourg, Switzerland, February 2026

2025

Participation and Equity in Long-Term Care: Systemic and Societal Perspectives

Poster by Sandra Staudacher, Nora Peduzzi, Séverine Soiron, Katja Jungo, Norina Reiffer, Alexandra Staehli, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund and Franziska Zúñiga, Gerontological Society of America (GSA), Bosten, USA, November 2025

Navigating Multi-Perspectival Participation. Ethnographic Insights from the Swiss Long-Term Care Sector

Presentation by Sandra Staudacher, Katja Jungo, Nora Peduzzi, Séverine Soiron and Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund, Medical Anthropology Europe Conference, Vienna, Austria, September 2025  

Partizipation in der Langzeitpflege – Eine ethnographische Untersuchung in der stationären Pflege (EPICENTRE), der häuslichen Pflege und im betreuten Wohnen (PARTICIPATIO) in den Kantonen Basel-Stadt und Basel-Landschaft

Poster by Sandra Staudacher, Katja Jungo, Nora Peduzzi, Séverine Soiron, Alexandra Staehli, Norina Reiffer, Mona Brandão, Flurina Fellmann, Mirjam Karlin, Laura Maurer, Samuel Stenz, Miriam Grab, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund and Franziska Zúñiga at the INS Anniversary Celebration „25 Years of Growth“, Basel, Switzerland, September 2025. INS_Jubilaeum_Poster_EPICENTRE-PARTICIPATIO_Staudacher

Partizipation von älteren Menschen in Pflegeheimen: Eine ethnographische Exploration und Analyse

Poster by Séverine Soiron, Katja Jungo, Nora Peduzzi, Alexandra Staehli, Norina Reiffer, Samuel Stenz, Anja Orschulko, Miriam Grab, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund, Eva Soom-Ammann, Franziska Zúñiga and Sandra Staudacher at the INS Anniversary Celebration „25 Years of Growth“, Basel, Switzerland, September 2025. INS_Jubilaeum_Poster_EPICENTRE-PARTICIPATIO_Soiron

Partizipation älterer Menschen mit häuslicher Langzeitpflege (Spitex) – eine ethnographische Untersuchung

Poster by Nora Peduzzi, Séverine Soiron, Katja Jungo, Alexandra Staehli, Norina Reiffer, Samuel Stenz, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund, Sarah Campbell, Franziska Zúñiga and Sandra Staudacher at the INS Anniversary Celebration „25 Years of Growth“, Basel, Switzerland, September 2025. INS_Jubilaeum_Poster_EPICENTRE-PARTICIPATIO_Peduzzi

Partizipation älterer Menschen im Betreuten Wohnen: Eine ethnographische Studie

Poster by Katja Jungo, Nora Peduzzi, Séverine Soiron, Alexandra Staehli, Samuel Stenz, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund, Paula Carder, Franziska Zúñiga and Sandra Staudacher at the INS Anniversary Celebration „25 Years of Growth“, Basel, Switzerland, September 2025. INS_Jubilaeum_Poster_EPICENTRE-PARTICIPATIO_Jungo

Partizipation in der Transition vom Spital in ein Alters- und Pflegeheim – Eine Rapid Ethnography

Poster by Norina Reiffer, Nora Peduzzi, Séverine Soiron, Katja Jungo, Anja Orschulko, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund, Alexandra Staehli, Franziska Zúñiga and Sandra Staudacher at the INS Anniversary Celebration „25 Years of Growth“, Basel, Switzerland, September 2025. INS_Jubilaeum_Poster_EPICENTRE-PARTICIPATIO_Reiffer

Participation of older people living with home-based long-term care – an ethnographic enquiry

Presentation by Nora Peduzzi, Séverine Soiron, Norina Reiffer, Alexandra Stähli, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund, Franziska Zúñiga and Sandra Staudacher, 4th International Conference of the German Society of Nursing Science, Berlin, Germany, May 2025

Participation and equity of older people in the long-term care sector: Societal and systemic perspectives

Poster presentation by Sandra Staudacher, Nora Peduzzi, Séverine Soiron, Norina Reiffer, Alexandra Stähli, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund and Franziska Zúñiga, 4th International Conference of the German Society of Nursing Science, Berlin, Germany, May 2025

International knowledge exchange event

Participation by Sandra Staudacher and Nora Peduzzi at networking meeting “Collaboration in Practice: Technology and Innovation Research Beyond Boundaries” , Cost Action CA22167 – Participatory Approaches with Older Adults (PAAR-net), Vilnuis, Lithuania, April 2025

Framed sociality: Societal context of nursing home residents’ participation

Presentation by Sandra Staudacher, Nora Peduzzi, Séverine Soiron, Anja Orschulko, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund, Norina Reiffer and Alexandra Stähli, MAS Symposium Together in the Nursing Home, Zürich, Switzerland, January 2025

2024

Gesellschaftliche Perspektiven auf Fragilität, Vulnerabilität und Partizipation von Pflegeheimbewohnenden – Societal perspectives on fragility, vulnerability and participation of nursing home residents

Presentation by Sandra Staudacher, Anja Orschulko, Nora Peduzzi, Séverine Soiron, Norina Reiffer and Alexandra Staehli, Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association (SSA) 2024: Vulnerable Societies: Risks and Responses, Muttenz, Switzerland, September 2024

International knowledge exchange event

Participation by Sandra Staudacher at networking meeting, PAAR-net MC Meeting and Knowledge Exchange Event, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, September 2024

Medical Anthropology in Collaborations: Practices and Politics of Knowledge Production Across Disciplinary and Academic Boundaries

Round Table contribution by Sandra Staudacher, Annual Meeting of the Swiss Anthropological Association (SAA): Towards an anthropology for troubled times?, Lucerne, Germany, June 2024

Some reflections on the current level of involvement of older adults in participatory research

Presentation by Sandra Staudacher, Cost Action 22167- Participatory Approaches with Older Adults (PAAR-net), Kraków, Poland, April 2024